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The Last Beluga Fisherman
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Inuit sculpture - Man riding a beluga
1 of 29 		Basque fisherman
2 of 29 		Reverend Henri-Raymond Casgrain (1831-1904)
3 of 29 		The last beluga fisherman, Émile Lizotte, tells the story of the family fishery
4 of 29 		Men with beluga catch
5 of 29 		Fishermen with their horses in the river's icy waters
6 of 29
Men at high tide hauling in the belugas caught in the poles
7 of 29 		Men killing belugas caught inside the poles
8 of 29 		Émile Lizotte killing a beluga with a spontoon
9 of 29 		House on the point, where the employees lived
10 of 29 		Men using high tide to retrieve the belugas that were caught
11 of 29 		Horse hauling beluga carcass ashore
12 of 29
Boy hauling a recently captured beluga ashore
13 of 29 		Beluga fishery employees stripping a mammal of its blubber
14 of 29 		Workers start cutting up belugas, even before all are on the beach
15 of 29 		Carving up a beluga using knives and iron hooks
16 of 29 		Men looking at belugas stripped of their skin and blubber
17 of 29 		The two buildings in which beluga blubber was melted, and the stable in the background
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